242 Da Zhuang Breaks Through (1/2)
”What?!” Lian Kun's expression took an ugly turn. He could no longer maintain his composure. ”You had the upper hand and the advantage. Still, he managed to defeat you with just a single blow! Are you certain that he is only an early Dharma adept? Are you sure that he was a Golden Essence adept just a month ago?” Lian Kun demanded, glaring at Lian Can.
”Just one month ago, I saw him descend from the sky enveloped in a golden glow from his inner Yuan. Even today, his Dharma was only ten meters tall,” replied Lian Can. A Dharma that was ten meters tall was the hallmark of an early Dharma adept.
”Then, how is it possible?” Lian Kun's face was filled with disbelief. ”He is an early Dharma adept, just like you, and he just reached the Dharma stage not long ago. How could he possibly have defeated you with just a single blow under such circumstances?”
”Master,” said Lian Can, with a bitter smile on his face, ”I am not sure either. But it must have something to do with the Dharma he produced. His massive tiger Dharma pounced on my palm print Dharma at the last moment. Even though he could not have possibly utilized its full power, my palm print was like a piece of paper in front of his giant tiger—that's how easily it was shredded.” With that, a hint of fear crossed Lian Can's eyes. ”I once sparred with a senior who was in the middle Dharma stage, and even that senior's thirty-meter-tall Dharma was not as powerful as his ten-meter-tall Dharma.” Middle Dharma adepts produced Dharmas that were thirty meters tall. The strength of their Dharmas was often far greater than that of the ten-meter Dharmas produced by early Dharma adepts.
Now Lian Can was claiming that even the thirty-meter-tall Dharma of a Summer Valley disciple in the middle Dharma stage could not compare with Zhou Donghuang's ten-meter-tall Dharma.
”His Dharma was trained to a frightening level of perfection. Even though its inner Yuan was not as strong as mine, there was no chance of breaking through it—it was so perfect. On the other hand, my own giant palm print Dharma suddenly had so many problems and imperfections, and his Dharma managed to attack them all. Although my Dharma itself had few imperfections before, during that short battle with the huge tiger Dharma, it became so weak, and defects kept appearing. It was as if it went crazy because of the attack. Even the Dharma of an ultimate Dharma adept may not be so perfectly trained.” As he spoke, Lian Can's eyes were filled with a complicated expression. ”Who knows how he trained his Dharma so well. Within one month of entering the Dharma stage, he's already produced such an unnatural Dharma!”
”A ten-meter-tall Dharma! Is it really untouchable?” Lian Kun's eyes narrowed sharply. ”Even an ultimate Dharma adept cannot safely say that his Dharma is untouchable. Even though an ultimate adept's Dharma has gone through a whole series of training, there are still a few imperfections, however rare. Typically, once an ultimate Dharma adept strikes out with a blow, he is perfectly capable of concealing the imperfection.”
Lian Kun did not believe Lian Can. He did not think that Zhou Donghuang's Dharma was untouchable. However, he did not question that the strength of Zhou Donghuang's Dharma and its training were on a par with that of an ultimate Dharma adept. Otherwise, Zhou Donghuang would definitely not have been able to defeat his son so quickly and effortlessly.
Lian Can was not just any bum. He was considered superior among the disciples under Lian Kun, and it was no accident that he would likely become a core disciple of the Lightning Sword Sect.
”That lass from the He family—where did they find a monster like that?” In Lian Kun's eyes, this monster should not have appeared in the Lightning Sword Sect. In fact, neither of those two forces should have appeared in the Hengliu galaxy at all.
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After returning to the Autumn Valley with He Mengxi, Zhou Donghuang took her straight to Da Zhuang then gave him an elixir. ”Da Zhuang, after you take this elixir, you will reach the Dharma stage within a month!”
Zhou Donghuang then helped Da Zhuang set up a huge Qi-gathering position. To save some trouble, he used twenty thousand mid-level spirit stones—enough to cover every corner of Da Zhuang's room. He had used them to set up the position in one go was so that he would not have to set up another one in the future.
”Twenty thousand spirit stones for the Qi-gathering position should be roughly enough for Da Zhuang to enter the Dharma stage,” said Zhou Donghuang to himself.
Zhou Donghuang had used fifty thousand mid-level spirit stones to go from the ultimate Primal Core stage to the Dharma stage within two weeks, and all four of his inner cores had attained Dharma. In his opinion, considering that he was more talented than Da Zhuang, twenty thousand mid-level spirit stones should be enough for Da Zhuang to enter the early Dharma stage within a month. After all, Da Zhuang was currently training using the premier ”Fiery Thunder Training Regime,” not the old technique he'd used in the past!
”Little Brother, where did you get so many spirit stones?” As Da Zhuang shut the door and practiced faithfully, in the courtyard outside, He Mengxi revealed her surprise. She looked at Zhou Donghuang as she muttered, ”Here are twenty thousand mid-level spirit stones. All five of the inferior-level spirit stone quarries on your home planet, Ziyun, can only produce ten thousand inferior spirit stones in a single year.” Twenty thousand mid-level spirit stones were equivalent to two hundred thousand inferior spirit stones. All the spirit stone quarries on Ziyun would take twenty years to produce that many, assuming not one spirit stone was used during that time. Therefore, He Mengxi could not imagine how Zhou Donghuang had obtained so many spirit stones.